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Mellite

by: Hanns Holger Rutz

Publication date: 2023-12-31

Topics: computer music, music, sound art, sound synthesis, scala

Language: English

Rights: GNU Affero General Public License v3+

Item Size: 3.3G

Mellite is an environment for creating experimental computer-based music and sound art. See the project's website www.sciss.de/mellite for more information.

Mellite is an open source software published under GNU Affero General Public License 3.0+.

Mellite is written in the Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and thus supports various desktop systems and CPUs (e.g., Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspbian). For real-time sound synthesis, SuperCollider must be installed.

Installation Option 1 (preferred): Launcher

Beginning with Mellite 3.5.0, a new preferred installation mechanism has been introduced. A separate Mellite-launcher has been created which provides the base system (JDK) and takes care of installing the Mellite application itself and checking for software updates. If your platform is supported, it is recommended to download the launcher, as it will allow you to get faster access to Mellite bug fixes and updates:

mellite-launcher_{version}_linux_x64.zip (for Linux 64-bit Intel/AMD)
mellite-launcher_{version}_win_x64.zip (for Windows)
mellite-launcher_{version}_mac_x64.zip (for macOS 10.10 or newer)
mellite-launcher_{version}_amd64.deb is a Debian package. You install it via sudo dpkg -i mellite-launcher_{version}_amd64.deb. This is the preferred method on Debian and Ubuntu, since it will add an executable mellite-launcher to your system and a desktop shortcut with icon. To uninstall, run sudo apt remove mellite-launcher.

A Raspberry Pi option is planned to be added. It is also possible to install the launcher without bundled JDK, which may be useful if you need to support a different architecture and you are able to install the JDK yourself:

mellite-launcher_{version}_all.zip (platform neutral, no bundled JDK)

Installation Option 2: Standalone Download

We still provide less frequently published builds of standlone binaries (they can be used without the launcher). They come in two flavours - a “plain” one that requires you to separately install a Java Development Kit (JDK) 11, and “full” ones that are bundled with OpenJDK 11 (origin: https://adoptopenjdk.net/):

This is the “plain” download:

mellite_{version}_all.zip is platform neutral. You will find shell scripts mellite (for Linux and OS X) and mellite.bat (for Windows) in the bin directory.

These are the downloads bundled with JDK:

mellite-full_{version}_linux_x64.zip (for Linux 64-bit Intel/AMD)
mellite-full_{version}_win_x64.zip (for Windows)
mellite-full_{version}_mac_x64.zip (for macOS 10.10 or newer)
mellite-full_{version}_amd64.deb is a Debian package. You install it via sudo dpkg -i mellite-full_{version}_amd64.deb. This is the preferred method on Debian and Ubuntu, since it will add an executable mellite to your system and a desktop shortcut with icon. To uninstall, run sudo apt remove mellite.

You can find all these files by clicking on 'DOWNLOAD OPTIONS > SHOW ALL'. You also find there example workspaces `FScape-modules-{version}.mllt.zip`, `negatum-examples.zip`, `PaulStretch.zip`, and `Impulse-{version}.mllt.zip`, that can be used with Mellite. The FScape modules workspace constitutes the collection of non-realtime sound transformations known as “FScape 2” or “FScape-next”.

For Raspberry Pi (arm architecture), use the plain standalone download. On Raspbian Buster (full) you already have JDK 11 and SuperCollider server installed, and thus you are immediately ready to go. Otherwise you need apt packages `openjdk-11-jdk` and `supercollider`.